Windows Live Product Search Contribution Support Thread

aPurpleMonkey.com:

Having problems with this contribution and your Google Base one as well...same issue actually...

When I click on Step 1 it throws the popup and then immediately stops. Nothing displayed in the window...nothing saved in the feed file.

Added the changes to my php.ini and changed the script execution time in Admin.

Still nothing.

Any ideas?

Is this a hosting issue? If it is what do I need to have my host change to allow this to work?

Thanks for providing such killer add-ons. :clap:

Do you have wordpress installed? The gzip_compression() in that mod can cause this problem.

DrByte, this is the code from wordpress if you have any ideas:

 
if(isset($_GET['feed'])){
wp();
gzip_compression();
require_once('./wp-includes/template-loader.php');

exit();
}

Hey Numinix

Just setup the mod and it output was excellent.

Thank you,

Just curious when do you think you will be tackling Yahoo Shopping? Just a thought. I could send you links about what they need which like I said before isn't much different from what you already have. I could send you information if you were interested.

They are a pay service correct?

The next mod I will be developing is the Auction Lister Attributes module which is a general mod for storing auction specific data in the products table for use in future and existing modules (i.e. eBay category, etc). Once that is complete, I have been hired privately to complete an Amazon mod which will then be released publicly thanks to the gracious supporter. And then I will complete the long awaited eBid module that I have been talking about for quite some time.

Yahoo, and other shopping comparison sites have no direct interest to me which is why I haven't given them priority. Although I do get some donations thanks to a few members, such as yourself, the mods are written 95% out of my interest to write them for my own Zen Cart store, Numinix.com. That said, I am capable to create those mods and will get to them eventually :)

The output was fine but I got this error when I tried to upload to live product search "Catalog rejected: Not in the expected XML format.
Correct the format, and then try your upload again. Learn more about catalog formats "

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Send me your feed file to [email protected]

If your feed has all of the required attributes, try sending it again. It will normally be instantly rejected if there is an error.

I had this error when <OfferCollection> was not included in the feed file, but this was added in v1.0.1 and shouldn't be an issue anymore.

numinix:

Send me your feed file to [email protected]

If your feed has all of the required attributes, try sending it again. It will normally be instantly rejected if there is an error.

I had this error when <OfferCollection> was not included in the feed file, but this was added in v1.0.1 and shouldn't be an issue anymore.

I sent you the feed file, if you did not get it because it's too big please let me know and I will resend.

Thanks!

numinix:

Do you have wordpress installed? The gzip_compression() in that mod can cause this problem.

DrByte, this is the code from wordpress if you have any ideas:

if(isset($_GET['feed'])){
wp();
gzip_compression();
require_once('./wp-includes/template-loader.php');

exit();
}

Well....I commented out all instances of gzip_compresion(); in that mod and still nothing.

It doesn't break the site but it doesn't fix it either.

Even turned off the WP sidebox....no go!

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

Any other ideas?

Try commenting out that entire section of the code

/*if(isset($_GET['feed'])){ 
wp(); 
gzip_compression(); 
require_once('./wp-includes/template-loader.php'); 

exit(); 
}*/  

Ok...getting closer. Feed seems to be created correctly now at least.

Now I get

Live Product Search Feeder v.1.0.1 09.08.2007 13:54 started 2007/08/13 20:43:43
Feed file - /home/apurplem/public_html/a1webshopping/feed/lps.xml
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: ftp.productupload.live.com
Warning: ftp_connect() [function.ftp-connect]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known
Upload failed...

when I click on step 2.

:oops:

You'll have to upload your file manually. Contact your host about the error.

Tried this...still no luck.

Get the following error from live...

Upload file type: Product Search XML (.xml)

Upload error!
HTTP error, 404 occurred.

Changed the feed type to be uploaded via browser.
File exists and appears to be uploaded by the amount of time it takes (it's only 300k or so).

Any other ideas?

aPurpleMonkey.com:

Tried this...still no luck.

Get the following error from live...

Upload file type: Product Search XML (.xml)

Upload error!
HTTP error, 404 occurred.

>  
> Changed the feed type to be uploaded via browser.
> File exists and appears to be uploaded by the amount of time it takes (it's only 300k or so).
>  
> Any other ideas?
 
I meant upload manually using a client FTP program.

Also, Live will show the feed as processing or rejected almost immediately after upload.

My bad.....:oops:

That worked.

Thanks a million for the help. :clap:

Hi,

Used the module, works excellently; however, Live products generated a "warning" message: "MerchantCategory removed: Does not conform to the correct format." I suspect that it is because a slash "/" character in my category description (category and sub-category shown here): " Friendship / Encouragement | General". This is from live product's help:

I guess since MerchantCategory is optional, the reader just took it off from those products.
I should be able to fix it right now by changing the "/" for a "&" or "-".

MerchantCategory

Type: Optional

Description: The category and sub-categories that the product for sale belongs to.

Field name (.txt catalog files): MerchantCategory

Field tag (.xml catalog files): <MerchantCategory>

Corresponding Goggle Base field name: none

Character limit: 256

Allowed characters:

* 0-9, a-z, A-Z
* Space
* Ampersand (&)
* Apostrophe (')
* Dash (-)
* Underscore (_)
* Separate multiple categories with a pipe (|)

Thanks very much for the module

The next release will have a feature allowing you to set the merchant category by the top level only or include all sub-categories.

It's not important because there is no browse feature on Live and at the moment I think Live isn't ready for use without <OfferID> or some similar attribute to distinguish the products uniquely each time the feed file is updated. I currently have my cron job set to daily and each time it uploads it goes back into processing and none of the products are live. With Google Base, the products stay live and all updates to the products are in processing mode. This is a major advantage of Google Base. I suggest everyone turn their cron jobs off for Live until <OfferID> is implemented as I have requested to them.

Hello Numinix,

This is totally unrelated but the microsoft graphic is really skewed in my admin because the image size outputed is 110 x 48 px and the image size is larger than that. So I found a new image and made it to the size required. i hope this was fine anyhow I am submitting it to you if you would like to use it.

as well a google image but I will post it in the google thread

avel

You are officially the new image processor for my mods. Thank you.

Do any of the other images need resizing?

numinix:

Send me your feed file to [email protected]

If your feed has all of the required attributes, try sending it again. It will normally be instantly rejected if there is an error.

I had this error when <OfferCollection> was not included in the feed file, but this was added in v1.0.1 and shouldn't be an issue anymore.

Did you get the file I emailed you? I am still unable to upload my file. Thanks!

The following is taken from the Live Product Upload help file concerning the missing images:

**> **

Product images don't display correctly

Images of your products may not display correctly on Live Product Search after you successfully register with Windows Live Product Upload Beta and publish a catalog. This problem may occur if you or your Internet service provider use a robots.txt file to block robots from crawling your website. This blocks the MSNBOT user-agent from crawling the directory that contains the images of your products.

To allow the MSNBOT user-agent to crawl your website, add the following lines of text to the end of your robots.txt file:

User-agent: msnbotDisallow:****

BlessIsaacola:

Did you get the file I emailed you? I am still unable to upload my file. Thanks!

Send it again [email protected]